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BUY YOUR OWN COUNTRY

LONDON – For sale: The world’s smallest country with its own flag,
stamps, currency and passports.

Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation,
even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the
North Sea.

Built in World War II as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers,
the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army Maj.
Paddy Roy Bates, who went to live there with his family.

He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of
England and just outside Britain’s territorial waters, to be the
principality of Sealand.

The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and
minted silver and gold coins.

The family staved off an attempt by Britain’s Royal Navy to evict them
and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen
to seize Sealand by force.

Roy, 85, now lives in Spain, and his son Michael told BBC Radio on
Monday his family had been approached by estate agents with clients
“who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted
autonomy.”

He suggested Sealand, which has eight rooms in each tower, could be a
base for online gambling or offshore banking.

Asked to describe the delights of living on what he described as a
cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old said: “The neighbors
are very quiet. There is a good sea view.”

ACFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s
Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are now working on the
Micronation of Sealand.

Recently it was made clear that this country is for sale. To make sure
the owners will be kopimistic and that the country won’t be governed
by people that do not care about it’s future, we have come up with a
plan.

With the help of all the kopimists on Internets, we want to buy
Sealand. Donate money and you will become a citizen.

We’ve set up a forum to discuss how the country is supposed to
function.

– It should be a great place for everybody. With high-speed Internets
access, no copyright laws and vip accounts to The Pirate Bay, press
officer of ACFI says.

Register and let us write history together.

Plan B: If we do not get enough money required to buy the micronation
of Sealand, we will try to buy another small island somwhere and claim
it as our own country (prices start from USD 50 000).